Word: winterers
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Revolutions have a way of escaping their instigators, and there were signs last week that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose Red Guards have convulsed China for four months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000,000 of the Red Guard youth who have been breaking windows and heads, renaming streets and chanting the lit any of Mao Tse-tung's narrow road to Socialist salvation. Over 100,000 of the Guards had the sniffles, or something more serious, from wearing only Mao-think...
This month marks the beginning of Howard Fitzpatrick's busy season -- not insofar as his duties as High Sheriff of Middlesex County are concerned but insofar as he owns Fitzpatrick Brothers, Inc., "Banquet Caterers to the Democratic Party." Every winter, testimonial fund-raising dinners are held in honor of aspiring Democratic politicians, and Howard Fitzpatrick is usually hired to provide the food...
Although there are no state elections ahead, this winter will still be busy for Sheriff Fitzpatrick. Last September, after losing the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, Mayor John F. Collins indicated that he would not seek re-election in 1967. Since then, city councilors, school committee members, state representatives and other ambitious but minor Boston politicians have been thinking about running for Collins' job. Local political observers are watching closely to see which contenders actually call Howard Fitzpatrick, or his competitor, Stanley Blinstrub, about arranging a fund-raising dinner...
Speedy Wayne Small, All-Ivy honorable mention last winter as a sophomore, centers a dangerous line and works well with right wing Bill McSween...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...